This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement No 612345.

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ABOUT MAPPINGMAPPING aims at creating an all-round and “joined-up” understanding of the many and varied economic, social, legal and ethical aspects of the recent developments on the Internet, and their consequences for the individual and society at large, focusing in particular on three comple-mentary and interlinked problem areas: Intellectual Prop-erty Rights, Privacy and Internet Governance. The project specifically capitalises upon and debates the existing in-novation policies, business models and legal frameworks related to the implementation of the Digital Agenda for Eu-rope, as well as the changes needed to set up an improved governance structure for the EU innovation ecosystem.

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BASIC INFOFunding7th Framework programme - SiS - 2013 - 1Coordination and Support Action

Total Cost€ 4,642,522.20 (EU Contribution: € 3,995,765)

Project duration From 01/03/2014 to 28/02/2018

ContactMAPPING dissemination partner, EPMA (CZ) info@mappingtheinternet.eu

MAPPING Coordinator, University of Groningen (NL) projectoffice@mappingtheinternet.eu

PARTNERSProject coordinatorUniversity of Groningen (NL)

Participants

University of Malta (MT)Law and Internet Foundation (BG)Laboratory of Citizenship Sciences (IT)Leibniz University Hannover (DE)ICPO-INTERPOL (Int. org.)National Research Council (IT)

Institute for Research on Population and Social PoliciesInstitute of Legal Information Theory and Techniques

European Projects & Management Agency (CZ)EUSTIX (AT)Association for Technology and Internet (RO)DiploFoundation (MT)Hoplite Software (ES)British Business Federation Authority (UK)

LAW AND INTERNET FOUNDATIONCENTER FOR LAW OF T H E I N F O R M A T I O N AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES

ФОНДАЦИЯПРАВО И ИНТЕРНЕТЦЕНТЪР ПО ПРАВО НАИНФОРМАЦИОННИТЕ ИКОМУНИКАЦИОННИТЕТЕХНОЛОГИИ

Asociația pentru Tehnologie și Internet

Asociația pentru Tehnologie și Internet

PRIVACY, PERSONALITY & BUSINESS MODELS

Privacy in an ICT environment is located at the intersection of three fundamental interests crucial to social and eco-nomic well-being: a) the need to efficiently protect Fun-damental Rights; b) the need to provide a safe and stable environment; and c) the need to promote and support inno-vation and competitiveness of the ICT market. The project aims at balancing these three interests through identifying threats, counter-measures and thereby good practices to provide a road map to future governance of personal data use and protection of innovation and economic value rep-resented by data against cybercrime and cyber-espionage.

INTELECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTSWhile the traditional IPR protection concepts have served their purpose for many years, the Internet and the op-portunities it brings along, are changing the conventional property logic’s underlying paradigms that often lead to prohibitive practices and chilling effects on economy and innovation. In this context, the project explores the recent trends in IPR protection in general and the new business models based on IPR exploitation on the Internet in par-ticular; issues related to the interaction between the pro-prietary approach and open innovation; online dissemina-tion of IPR; licencing (including open source licencing); and the risks associated with IPR transborder use.

DIALOGUE & PARTICIPATIONAt the core of MAPPING’s approach is mobilization of and dialogue with a wide spectrum of ICT-related stakeholders and social actors; enabling them to come together in a multidisciplinary environment where “research meets practice” in order to tackle the most pressing issues of the “digital transition”. The aim is to foster a constructive and informed dialogue between diverse actors, in order to maximise exchange of knowledge and collegial cooperation. Thus, dialogue and participation initiatives represent, in a sense, the backbone of the whole project and a fundamental component of the work on the three substantive focus areas.

ACTORS & STAKEHOLDERSThe main methodological approach of the MAPPING project is a holistic strategy applied to actors’ and stakeholders’ in-volvement and engagement. They, as members of multiple “epistemic communities”, are able to bring crucial insights into the interpretation of the main challenges of the digi-tal transition, while holding a stake or interest in the three MAPPING focus areas. Their involvement and engagement allows MAPPING not only to acquire expertise from multi-ple disciplines, but also to get access to diverse knowledge, skills and roles. They are classified by the project according to their nature, their action level and their level of influence in the three main thematic fields.

POLICY OBSERVATORYThe Observatory is a set of policy watch activities pertaining to the core MAPPING focus areas. It offers a synthetic overview of policy matters and a set of comparison tables on key policy issues updated monthly. The information provided as well as the tool itself are free for re-use.

• 4 General Assemblies each bringing together 100+ stakeholders from throughout the world

• Round tables, conferences & stakeholder meetings focusing on issues connected with the MAPPING problem areas organised throughout Europe

• Stakeholder training sessions & a competition among young innovators and entrepreneurs

• 24 Focus groups aimed at encouraging detailed dis-cussion among national stakeholders

• Policy Observatory with new items added each week

• Joint seminar on sustainability & European Work-shop on policy watch activities

• Responsive action plan along with concise policy recommendations aimed to improve the societal relevance of the digital transition

• Evolving expert community, online blog and forum

• Reports on the three MAPPING focus areas draw-ing on project work

observatory.mappingtheinternet.eu

policy observatory

INTERNET GOVERNANCEAware that the Internet is ever-changing and that the technical possibilities are constantly developed allowing for new technical solutions, MAPPING looks at technical, legal, policy and market-driven solutions to create a part of cyberspace where European values and fundamental human rights can be expected to be properly respected. Amongst other things, MAPPING focuses on the feasibility of having a new international law treaty addressing the protection of fundamental rights on the Internet and the possible creation of technical spaces online which will permit netizens to, if they wish, restrict their activities on the internet to an area which would a) have a number of technical safeguards built-in; b) would be subject to the jurisdiction of European based/value courts enforcing European standards in all areas including IPR, privacy and defamation; c) will not be subject to the jurisdiction of any security or service agencies the activities of which are not legitimately sanctioned at the European level. To achieve this, MAPPING brings together different stakeholders - including, business and online service providers, governmental organisations, civil society and academics - to collectively share knowledge and experience, think together on issues, decision-making, and practices, and develop recommended ways forward on the issues identified.

EXPECTED OUTPUTS